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Apc’s Aregbesola Wins Osun Governorship Elections, Reasons Why He Won by ArabaONE: 6:24am On Aug 10, 2014 |
Rauf Aregbesola, governor of Osun state, has been returned for a second term. He defeated closest challenger, the Peoples Democratic Party’s Iyiola Omisore. To emerge winner, Mr. Aregbesola polled a total of 394,684 votes, winning the highest number of votes in 22 of the 30 Local Government Areas of the state. His closest challenger, Iyiola Omisore of the Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] polled 292,747 votes to come second. He won in eight local government areas. The candidate of the Labour Party [LP], Fatai Akinbade, polled 8,898 votes to come a distant third. Mr. Aregbesola won in Ayedade, Ifelodun, Ede North, Ola Oluwa, Irepodun, Ila Orangun, Ede South, Atakumosa West, Oriade, Orolu, Boripe and Ilesa West. The APC candidate also breasted the tape in Ilesa East, Ifedayo, Irewole, Obokun, Egbedore, Iwo, Osogbo, Olorunda, Atakumosa East and Ejigbo. Mr. Omisore on his part took the lead in Isokan, Ife North, Ife East, Ife Central, Odo Otin, Boluwaduro, Ayedire and Ife South. Aregbesola’s second coming is different from his first in many ways. Having contested the 2007 governorship election on the platform of the Action Congress, one of the legacy parties that gave birth to the All Progressives Congress (APC), he had to fight his way through the courts until 2010 when he was sworn in on the orders of the Federal Appeal Court sitting in Ibadan. Interestingly, his opponent in the 2007 election, Chief Olagunsoye Oyinlola of the PDP, defected from the PDP to join Aregbesola’s campaign train in the run up to the 2014 election. In May 2008, Aregbesola called over 100 witnesses and tendered 168 exhibits in his petition before the Election Petitions Tribunal, alleging violence and ballot box stuffing in the election. In an October 2008 interview, he described Oyinlola as “a bully who came from a reactionary military arm.” As is often said, in politics, there are no permanent friends or foes, only permanent interests. Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has had his fair share of controversies. He was arrested in August 2009 for involvement in the alleged forgery of a police report on the conduct of the elections that brought in Olagunsoye Oyinlola. But that was just one episode in the many of such dramas that coloured the landscape in his march towards the Osun state Government House. He was summoned again by the police in August 2010 to make a statement about a 14 June 2007 bomb explosion near the ministry of water resources. Aregbesola denied any involvement, stating that he was in Abuja at the time. Despite his controversial nature, an attribute that is understandable considering his activist background, so many achievements have endeared the school-uniform- wearing governor to the people, giving him legit ‘street cred’. These include, among others: - 40,000 Youths Employed under the Osun Youth Empowerment Scheme. - 5,000 Youths trained and empowered in information communication technology under the Osun Youth Empowerment Technology (OYESTECH). - Over N2.4 billion injected to the economy as allowances for the OYES Volunteers - 123 kilometres of waterways (streams, arteries, canals) dredged to keep the state flood-free for three years. - 750,000 school students provided with school uniforms free of charge. These uniforms were produced by 3,000 tailors who were empowered by the governor. - 150,000 students provided with computer tablets (opon imo), an electronic learning tool preloaded with 17 subjects, 54 textbooks, and past questions of JAMB, WAEC AND NECO of the past 10years - Primary School Funding Grants increased from N7.4 million to N424 million a year - 240,000 children fed daily with nutritious meals under the Osun Elementary School Feeding and Health Programme coupled with empowerment of over 3,000 caterers. - Secondary School basic funding grants from N171 million to N427 million per year - Tuition Fees in State-owned Tertiary Institutions reduced by 30% - Internally Generated Revenue(IGR) increased from N300 million to N700 million without increasing tax payable by citizens. - Building of the largest commercial apiary in Sub-Saharan Africa for refined honey production - Building of super highways to connect Osun to Lagos and Osun to Kwara States - Over 3,000 permanent teachers employed into the state education sector. - Osun Ambulance Service Authority Established with 400 youths trained as paramedics It is not surprising, therefore, that the people of Osun state came out en masse to vote for Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola for a second term as governor of the state. Osun was one state the APC couldn’t afford to lose after the party’s drubbing in Ekiti two months prior. That upset provided some rude awakening for the APC rank and file; a political party whose stronghold has become near impregnable in Nigeria’s South West region for a few years yet. |
Re: Apc’s Aregbesola Wins Osun Governorship Elections, Reasons Why He Won by cc150615(f): 6:55am On Aug 10, 2014 |
If you're currently staying in osun state, I'll need u to tell me sincerely how many of those oyes volunteers are still being paid salary as I speak, That's just one of his many failed propaganda I'll mention nd leave the rest to u That's if u really know what's going on in the state, most of which the high level of illiteracy has hindered the masses from understanding so they blindly voted him into power again. But I bet u it's gonna be another 4 years of poverty nd tyranny nd even a higher grade than the past one,u can mark my words Cos I'm sure of what I'm saying. anyway thank God I don't intend to be permanently based there as I just left there recently. 1 Like |
Re: Apc’s Aregbesola Wins Osun Governorship Elections, Reasons Why He Won by lilprinze: 7:03am On Aug 10, 2014 |
tankz to Jonathan 4 keeping hiz promises d election ws free and fair nw lets here what dose so called ACP r going to accuse pdp of nw |
Re: Apc’s Aregbesola Wins Osun Governorship Elections, Reasons Why He Won by ArabaONE: 1:30pm On Aug 10, 2014 |
lilprinze: tankz to Jonathan 4 keeping hiz promises d election ws free and fair nw lets here what dose so called ACP r going to accuse pdp of nwam sure you meant "APC" |
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